People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.
REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works. 'My heart'-I need no other's-'showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly.'
Instead of sitting in a classroom here on this very elite campus and talking about liberation and anti-colonial and anti-empire theology and black theology and feminist theology, let's give students the opportunity to be in a place where those issues are the daily life of the people. So now they're not just studying about these people. They're studying with them.
What a theologian feels as true, must be false one has therein almost a criterion of truth
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right into our very bodies.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian read journalist He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
We've been called to give away the gospel...and that starts with sharing Jesus. That doesn't start by giving your theology, that doesn't start by giving away your eschatology, and that doesn't start by giving away your ecclesiology. Just give away the gospel. You can theologize, and eschatologize, and ecclesiologize, and catechize after they've been Holy Ghost baptized We've been called to give away the gospel.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
This is not mathematics, it is theology. On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.
The fact that someone is an unattractive character with followers holding rather odd theology, does not mean that they have no civil, legal or constitutional rights. Calling such a group a 'cult' should not deprive them of their rights.
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
When you are studying theology, your intention is not to learn a trade but to understand the faith, and this presupposes, as we said a while ago, using the words of Augustine, that the faith is true, that, in other words, it opens the door to a correct un
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
The tension and fighting during this time was about trade, not theology.
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
It's important scientists take a stand on this because intelligent design is nothing more than creationism dressed up in a tuxedo. It's the same mishmash of theology and science.
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.
There is no Catholic Zen, Jewish Zen or Islamic Zen. It has no theology.
Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
I think that the Vatican is in a deep crisis of faith which they should be praying for. They don't trust theologians, they don't trust women, they don't trust gays and they don't trust nature. The rest of us who do and who are looking for answers should just get on with the work.
It's revolutionizing society in every way. It's leading us to the intersection of science, philosophy, theology and ethics.
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing it is founded on nothing it rests on no principles it proceeds by no authority it has no data it can demonstrate nothing and it admits of no conclusion.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.
Theology is anthropology.
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